Kalona Library Adds Twenty Four Children's Books
Kalona June 13 twenty four new books were placed on library shelves selected by the purchasing committee. The items include a fine group of children's books. Other local notes mention teaching assignments, family travels, and community events around Kalona Iowa and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Hender
Kalona
Kalona Public Library
Ray Wittrig
Wittrig
Washington
Peter Wittrig
Mildred Speas
HH. J. Hesseschwerdt
Nina Bender
John Schulty
R.4
Katona
Vernon Gingerich
Jessie Gingerich
Riverside
France
University of Paris
Ida Philips
Grace
Mildred
Delight
Mt. Pleasant
California
Sam G. Hochstetler
J. Cahill
Canada
Jake Knepp
John J. Knepp
Ed Shettler
Kate Gingerich
Mary Ann Miller
August Helin
Iowa City
Kenneth Gwengerich
Richard Keeley
Register and Tribune
Des Moines
Eclipse Lumber
Miller Family Visits Highlight Local Social Notes
Verdi June 13. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Miller called on James Baird. Stanley Baird spent Tuesday evening with Lyle Wilson. John Sheets and Will Sheets from Oklahoma visited Leslie Gates. Roy Miller family spent Sunday June 4 at Edd Miller home. Edd Miller also hosted others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verdi
Howard Miller
James Baird
Stanley Baird
Lyle Wilson
John Sheets
Will Sheets
Oklahoma
Leslie Gates
Roy Miller
Edd Miller
Sunday at the Grover Custer home
June Longer is spending two weeks at the Madison Jones Universal Languages. Some of the so called universal languages are Esperanto Volapuk Universala Kosmos Idiom Neutral Ro Ido and Anglic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grover Custer
Madison Jones
Biography of Claude Lemmon Founding Local Leader
The article profiles C. S. Lemmon also known as Claude, a native of New Albany Indiana who moved through Muncie Covington and Greensburg to study jewelry and optometry. He trained in Cleveland and Chicago then joined L D Robinson and moved to Washington Iowa in March 1899 where he began his long community leadership role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. S. Lemmon
Claude
New Albany
Indiana
Ohio River
Muncie
Covington
Kentucky
Greensburg
John
Cleveland
Chicago
L. D. Robinson
Washington
Robinson
Iowa
Claude Lemmon Mar
Lemmon Family Noted Leader Resides in Washington
The Lemmon family, civic and religious figures in Washington, are highlighted. John Lemmon, born Jan 9 1904, operates a jewelry store and optometry business since 1926 at 524 South Iowa Avenue. He studied in Grinnell Parsons Watchmaker's School and NI College of Optometry, married Grace Hurter, and has a three year old son John Bruce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ried
Margaret Applegate
Greensburg
Isabel
John
Lemmon
Washington
Grinnell
Parsons
Y.M.C.A. John
Watchmaker’s School
Elgin
Illinois
Northern Illinois College of Optometry
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Sandusky
Ohio
Grace Hurter
Ozarks
John Bruce
John Lemmon
the Lemmons
South
Iowa Avenue
John W Lemmon Named in Washington Jewelry Firm
John W Lemmon, a native of Washington, is connected with his father in the jewelry and optom business. The brief notice notes their partnership and local commercial ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John Lemmon
Oil Refining Traditions Persist Along Turko-Mesopotamian Road
In Mesopotamia between Kirkuk and Mosul Arabs refine oil using the same methods and equipment as their ancestors over two millennia ago, preserving ancient techniques in modern practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirkuk
Mosulia
Mesopotamia
Prehistoric Culture Seen On Great Plains Discovery
Reported discovery describes a prehistoric culture older than Egypt and Mesopotamia, existing on the Great Plains of what is now the United States before modern Indian peoples. The culture is estimated at 6,000 to 12,000 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Ruth Marie Rubens
Moscow
Russia
New York
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Great Plains
Raymond Minick the Only Man in Washington Beauty Shop Group
Ray Minick 28 years old lives in Washington and runs a beauty shop. A Washington native, he graduated from Washington High School in 1930 and Washington Junior College in 1982 before earning a beauty culture degree in Cedar Rapids. He once led DeMolay as Master Counselor Amo Chapter and later served as district senior counselor. He married Bertha Benda, their honeymoon sailed to New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Minick
Washington
Ray
Ashington
Washington High School
Washington Junior College
Cedar Rapids
Paris Academy of Beauty Culture
Paris Academy
Amo
Villian
Leffler
Bertha Benda
New Orleans
Franny Haney A Shoe Repairer From Washington
Francis Haney known as Franny, twenty nine, born May 27 1910 in Washington, runs a longtime shoe repair business since 1927 in Moore's Rootery building. He values school activity, married Berna Mae Messer, and is active in civic life and the Whiskey Club, embodying friendly industrious spirit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Haney
Frannay
Washington
Franny
Pvocess
Moore's Rootery
Brdna Mae Messer
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Thomas Miller
Middleburg
Virgil Knorr
H. V. Snodgrass
N. Y. World’s Fair
Mary Dougall
Amos Mellinger
Sam Meyers
Teresa Mellinger
A. W. Clow
Osteopathic
Tion
South Side Square
F. J. Longer
Mars
Bertha Eshelman
Son Cheston
Cheston Eshelman
Carlisle
Atlantic Ocean
Boston
Eshelman
Journal
Lloyd Lytle
Bob Lytle
Dick Johnson
J. E. Lemmon
Ss. Lemmon
U. S
John W. Lemmon
Adlerika Geo. L. McDaniel
Washington Business Firms
Chocolate Shop
Geurnal
East Side Seri
Washington’s
The
Hanson Co
Roberta Beauty Salon
McLellan
C. S. and
A Lytle’s Grocery
NIA
Duart
Raberta Beauty Salon
Moore's Rooters
R. Francis Haney
Bulova
C.S
East Side Square
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